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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Kampala"”.
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Transforming Futures? Being Pentecostal in Kampala, Uganda
… which is based on 14months of research in Kampala, Uganda, I explore how followers of this religion appropriate a discourse of prosperity and blessings, and how they utilise certain religious practices and relationships that are forged from the Pentecostal community in their efforts to …
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Informal Vending and the State in Kampala, Uganda
… examines how the agency of informal vendors in Kampala, Uganda, is shaped by the state. It argues that efforts by the President and the NRM to monopolize political power have dramatically restricted the agency of informal street and market vendors, forcing them to adapt to changing political …
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Gender dynamics in home ownership in Kampala, Uganda
… the different ways in which married women in Kampala, Uganda are unable to become homeowners during marriage and at widowhood. In the process, the study also explores the special mechanisms through which married women became homeowners through marriage and at widowhood. The study was premised …
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Treatment seeking behaviour among poor urban women in Kampala Uganda
This thesis examines women's treatment seeking behaviour for their own illnesses and that of children underfive in Kamwokya . The focus is on the extent to which women's access to money and time use patterns affect treatment seeking. It has been argued that women's treatment seeking behaviour is …
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Challenges and Livelihood Strategies of Darfurian Refugees Living in Kampala, Uganda
… with the Darfurian refugee population in Kampala, Uganda provides evidence on this relatively new Diaspora. Data was collected from June 2011 to August 2011, with the assistance of members of the Darfurian Refugee Association in Uganda (DRAU). Sixty-six respondents participated in the …
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An analysis of health facility preparedness for major incidents in Kampala
… study across four teaching hospitals in Kampala (Mulago National Referral Hospital, Nsambya Hospital, Mengo Hospital and Lubaga Hospital). A local geographic area Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) f or each site was combined with a key informant questionnaire and standardized facility …
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Inventive infrastructures : an exploration of mobile phone 'repair' cultures in Kampala, Uganda
Communities of repair in Kampala salvage phones; they bring dead ones back to life and rework recycled ones to operate with unfamiliar networks. How do these communities of repair congeal around the mobile phone? How do they form and develop? How is 'repair' understood and negotiated? The 'moment' …
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Willingness to pay for social health insurance : a case study of Kampala (Uganda)
In the face of rising health care costs and reductions imposed by budgetary cuts, many governments in developing countries are considering alternatives, other than general tax revenue, to finance their health services. The most popular options, so far adopted, include user fees, community …
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Participatory Inquiry in Practice [PIP]: NGO Accountability, Action Research and Urban Youth in Kampala
… held with 20 young women from the slums of Kampala. A practice model known as Participatory Inquiry in Practice (PIP) was designed, piloted and evaluated throughout this inquiry. Over the period of a year, urban youth from Kampala, known as PIP group members, selected a subject of inquiry …
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The public-private mix health care resources distribution implications for equity : Kampala district, Uganda
… has equity implications at the household level. Kampala district in Uganda was used to investigate this concern. Data collected from a household survey, key informant interviews and secondary data on health care resources distribution, was analyzed using STATA statistical package. The study …
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Navigating the Go-Down Zone in Namuwongo: reimagining spaces for informal traders in Kampala
Kampala, like many cities in the global south, is experiencing urbanisation at an unprecedented rate. Eight out of ten people are taking up informal employment, many of whom set up and occupy sites within highly contested spaces in the urban realm. Modernist planning and developments across the …
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Benefit incidence analysis of antiretroviral drugs in Uganda : a case study of Kampala and Masaka districts
… of such benefits. The study was carried out in Kampala district (Uganda's capital city) and Masaka district. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative methods. Facility-exit interviews with patients accessing free ARVs formed the quantitative method, while Focus Group discussions with …
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Urbanization in developing countries: a case study, Kampala Uganda; an elementary survey of land and dwelling environments.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1974. M.Arch.A.S.
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Understanding conflicting rationalities in city planning: a case study of co-produced infrastructure in informal settlements in Kampala
Kampala is Uganda's capital city and is one the fastest growing cities in the world. Over 60% of the city's urban population live and work informally. In 2002, the Ugandan Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development attended the World Urban Forum in Kenya, where he met with the international …
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An examination of childcare practices and perceptions amongst employed Ugandan males and their working spouses in the Kampala and Mpigi districts
… Random cluster samples of 200 fathers (100 in Kampala and 100 in Mpigi) and 200 mothers (100 in Kampala and 100 in Mpigi) were interviewed with questionnaires.
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Factors influencing the price of medical services : a survey of the pricing behaviour of private medical providers in Kampala, Uganda
… that influenced the price of medical services in Kampala district, Uganda. The respondents reported cost of drugs given to patients (type and dose of drug), other overhead expenditures, type of disease, income status of the patient and need to make profit as factors which influence the price of …
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The change in malaria treatment policy in Uganda : extent of adherence to antimalarial drug policy in Rakai and Kampala Districts
… in selected health facilities in Rakai and Kampala Districts is used as a measure of level of adherence to the change in policy.
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Low-income housing in Kampala, Uganda : a strategy package to overcome barriers for delivering housing opportunities affordable to the urban poor
The city of Kampala, Uganda, is struggling with a housing deficit that is compounding each year and creating market distortions that threaten to derail recent economic success and destabilize the social fabric of the community. The majority of government and private developers who build new housing …
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